Rutschman - why the mania?

[pappyzan]

Originally Posted by chazzycat

Here's my PL data to add:

Posey - 1087 games - 70 arm rating - 34.7% CS - .22 CS per game
Burgess - 1125 games - 49 arm rating - 35.2% CS - .26 CS per game

Burgess's lower arm rating is enticing more runners to go, but they are getting thrown out at roughly the same rate despite over 20 points of arm rating. So overall it's Burgess for the win.

Not saying everyone will experience this, but two thousand games is quite a lot of waiting around for a supposed advantage to manifest.

What are their SB attempts over the same period of time?

[chazzycat]

not sure how to find that...but I think it's safe to assume if their CS percentages are separately by only 0.5%, and one guy is throwing out a runner every four games instead of every five games...he's getting more attempts.

[Orcin]

Originally Posted by chazzycat

not sure how to find that...

Raw # for CS can be found in the fielding stats and then divide by CS%.

[chazzycat]

ah right, basic math...

Posey comes out to .64 attempts per game, Burgess with .74.

[osborneman]

Originally Posted by nickwatic

I spent real money on 350K PP yesterday to buy Ed Walsh. My starting catcher is Mike Lava and my backup is live Posey. I win 95+ every year. I think I'll be okay

I had this exact combo for like 10 seasons until I joined OL and had to get rid of my LIVE cards... so I replaced LIVE Posey with Historical Posey (He's my favorite player)!

[mcdog512]

Rutschman has been pretty good the half year I've had him. Pretty happy.

[Orcin]

Originally Posted by mcdog512

Rutschman has been pretty good the half year I've had him. Pretty happy.

He is almost always available for 150K now. Pretty tempting.

[mcdog512]

Originally Posted by Orcin

He is almost always available for 150K now. Pretty tempting.

I think I paid 160k.